assert

Example Sentences

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Under top leader To Lam, who has pursued sweeping growth-oriented reforms, Vietnam has formally embraced the blockchain industry and is gradually asserting control over the estimated $100 billion market.

From Barron's

With his announcement, Sarwar has asserted a degree of independence - that he is his own man, rather than Starmer's branch office manager in Scotland.

From BBC

To age is to find one’s appreciation for life’s daily joys sharpen, especially as more inconvenient realities assert themselves.

From Los Angeles Times

“Consumers shouldn’t have to go to infinity and beyond to assert their privacy rights,” Atty.

From Los Angeles Times

He goes further at the end of the book, asserting that “one would have had to yearn desperately for a warm and loving childhood to so fantastically create the toys of such a childhood.”

From The Wall Street Journal